Editors Gear Up for Next Tech Awards

Mortgage Technology editors are getting ready for next year's Mortgage Technology Award contenders in the wake of this year's award ceremony, held in conjunction with the Mortgage Bankers Association convention in Chicago.New entries are eligible to be received starting Jan. 1. At the magazine's 7th annual awards ceremony, held Oct. 22 at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center, the 10X Award for technology making an "exponential impact" on mortgage processes went to Interthinx for its contribution to fraud detection. The Lasting Impact Award, for developing technology that has proved its worth over time, went to Bill Kelvie of Overture for his pioneering role in the development of automated underwriting. The new Release of the Year Award, to a company launching a product or initiative likely to have a major impact on the mortgage industry's use of technology over time, went to joint winners GMAC Mortgage, Saxon Mortgage Services, Midland Mortgage Co., and Fiserv Lending Solutions for cooperatively creating a wizard for investor reporting and remitting using MortgageServ. The Steve Fraser Award, which goes to an outstanding mortgage technology innovator, visionary, or evangelizer, was presented to MortgageHub's Bill Adamowski. Winners of other awards, and those who received commendations in all categories, will be posted soon on the Mortgage Technology website.